Release and Discharge of Bad Dreams
Source: Release and Discharge of Powers by John Chipman Gray, 1911.
Dream of Metamorphosis
Image source: British Libellulinae, or, Dragon flies, by William Frederick Evans, 1845.
Source: Vortex Philosophy by C. Staniland Wake,1907.
Image source: Mills Seed Catalogue, 1887.
Image source: The Inner Planets by Robert Stawell Ball, 1892.
Shaped Dreams 1
Image source: A Natural History of the Crinoidea, or Lily-Shaped Animals by John Sebastian Miller, 1821.
Image source: Ice and Ice-Work in Newfoundland by John Milne, John, 1876.
Image source: The Young Astronomer by James Henry Carlisle, 1891. Counterfeit Dreams
Source: A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons by Friedrich Christian Accum, 1822.
The Constricted Dream
Source: Secrets of the Great Mysteries Now Revealed for the First Time by Oudini, c1909.
Source: Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 1909.
Image source: Brain Surgery by Moses Allen Starr, 1893.Dream Dialogue No. 7
Image Source: A History of the Art of Magic by T. T. Timayenis, 1887.
Dream Dialogue No. 63
Image source: Wyoming. Why not? by Wyoming Department of Immigration, 1908.
Dream Dispensaries
Source text: Remarks Read Before a Sub-Committee Appointed to Consider the Question of Provident Dispensaries by William Ogle, 1857.
The Force Required to Stop Nightmares
Source text: On the Force Required to Stop a Moving Electrified Sphere by G. Searle, 1907.
Consider the Exertions
This piece can be considered a Convenience OR an Inconvenience, depending upon the intent with which it is used.
This archival drawer holds completed work, scraps, rough edges, and ongoing mistakes.
It holds everything that was found, blacked out, scribbled over, finished, unfinished, discarded. It all counts.
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